The government accelerated asset sales in this current fiscal year after a chaotic rollout of a new national goods and services tax undermined tax collection targets Devidutta Tripathy & Manoj Kumar | Reuters | Mumbai/New Delhi Last Updated at January 28, ...

National Association of Realtors said that existing home sales surged 5.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.81 million units last month amid recovery in areas ravaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

The stock was up 3% to Rs 869 on the National Stock Exchange in intra-day trade so far SI Reporter | Mumbai Last Updated at January 3, 2018 10:12 IST Titan Company was up 3% to Rs 869 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in intra-day trade so far after the ...

The GST collections slipped to their lowest in November as rates were cut on dozens of goods to make the new national sales tax regime more acceptable. Total collections under the Goods and Services Tax -- which is the amalgamation of the excise duty, service tax, VAT and several other indirect taxes -- in November slipped for the second straight month to Rs 80,808 crore, down from over Rs 83,000 crore in the previous month, a finance ministry statement said. As many as 53.06 lakh tax returns ...

Minister of State for railways Rajen Gohain told Lok Sabha that in 2015-2016, the national transporter earned Rs 17,204.06 crore through booking of tickets online and Rs 28,119 crore in offline booking while in 2016-2-017, it earned 19,209.28 crore in online ...

IMAGE: The Punjab National Bank branch where fraudulent transcations worth USD 1.77 bn were detected, in Mumbai. .Photograph: Shirish Shete/PTI Photo. Despite the rating agency CARE withdrawing the ratings assigned to the bank facilities of FIPL “with immediate effect”, Modi’s company received uninterrupted letters of undertaking from PNB, which were honoured by other banks until a few weeks ago. Banks led by Punjab National Bank ignored crucial warnings by CARE Ratings ...

The nation has the fifth largest defence budget in the world, at $52.5 billion in 2017 ($51.1 billion in 2016), overtaking the UK whose defence budget fell from $52.5 billion in 2016 to $50.7 billion in 2017. India’s defence budget broke into the world’s top five, beating the United Kingdom for the first time, a new report by a London-based global think-tank has said, signalling a key shift in the military balance between the two countries. India overtook the UK as the ...